Casual Character Classification

Haiiro [Multicolored Magician]
Ability: Ability to manipulate color

Your local meddler (may or may not actually be local)! Born as a normal girl, she awoke to herself one day when a red haze came over Gensokyo. What sort of being could do such a thing? Apparently, a DANGEROUS YOUKAI, and the fact that everything in Gensokyo was dangerous and could eat her wasn't lost on her. If she was lunch to everything outside the human village, and she was powerless, she would be stuck in the human village forever, unable to experience the world--at least not without the threat of being eaten for wandering outside her playpen.

She didn't take it well--death is really scary, see--and so she secretly learned magic. Of course, magic was the first step--even if she had magic, she was still delicious. The whole reason she secretly learned magic was so she could become a magician (species), something that the human village and quite possibly Reimu herself would take issue with (she may have been watching when a Fortune Teller met his end). As such, she eventually fled the village, and had a really hard time...however, fueled by her own desire to experience Gensokyo, she survived long enough to figure out and carry out the process, becoming more powerful and less tasty in the process--and, somehow, gaining the ability to manipulate color in the process. Using that power, she changed her colors and identity, and so no one really knows who she was anymore!

With her newfound stability, she could finally turn to what she loved doing, even as a child--meddling. But, instead of meddling in just small things, she meddles in incidents, and thus despite magicians being known as bookworms that rarely leave their house, Haiiro goes outside a lot! She even reads while outside, because why waste time? Speaking of which, she doesn't like wasting time. She's perfectly capable of leisure, but it's only because pushing herself too hard is exhausting, and would result in her doing things half-baked.

Eventually, she became a pretty skilled magician, building a mansion with her magic and pioneering a large scale, relatively easy to use teleport spell to move the whole thing around. She welcomes fairies inside--partly because no one cuts fairies any slack, partly because anyone trying to shoot her would have to go through the fairies, partly because the fairies get antsy before/during an incident and that's useful information, and partly just all sorts of different reasons, like kind of being lonely during a study session. Of course, fairies don't make the best company during one of those, but...eh!

Haiiro has a long history of incidents she's both meddled in and outright solved--she takes some pride in the fact that she totally saved Reimu once by being in the right place at the right time, and may or may not have saved Yukari's in the process. Of course, soon after this, she started her own incident, turning Gensokyo's colors all funky, which she considers having been a 'real treat for the eyes' (temporarily). Of course, she got beat up by Reimu, but she forever remains bitter at Ginkyo, as she tried to hijack Haiiro's incident to support Inari, which left a lasting negative impression of Inari, Ginkyo, and wariness of kitsune in general. Recently, her opinion of Inari has softened, owing to a specific meeting, as well as that voodoo doll of Ginkyo she had for a while that Inari granted her.

Of course, she meddles because she wants to, but she does understand the benefits that trouble brings in Gensokyo--and has a good understanding of the overarching structure as well, and supports it when she's able. Though she's carefree and intentionally gets on people's nerves every once in a while by default, she knows that if incidents didn't happen and people didn't get irritated, Gensokyo may begin to decay, as humans could catch their breath and stop fearing youkai or the youkai could simply become bored--and even then, so much youkai nowadays keep trying to have cordial relations with humans, which is no good. Sure, she used to be human herself, so it might come off as hypocritical that she's friends with a terrifying vampire and a retired killer spider (and also JUST HAPPENS TO KNOW a truly insane kitsune), she put in the work to not be human, so she's exempt! That all well and said, her meddling could be either a good or a bad thing, depending on her mood at the time--she's usually bad news, though.

Her ability to manipulate color seems so-so for practical use, but she's gotten exceptionally good with it. She can create colors that simply don't naturally occur, use it to effectively become invisible, vandalize people and objects without lifting a finger, and it's REALLY good for danmaku. And, of course, the ability of 'being a magician' gives her very potent magic, as well--allowing her to cross Gensokyo in the blink of an eye, imprisoning groups of difficult foes, or simply making things go boom, among other things. And because she wants to experience Gensokyo, she'll never stop, or stop being herself. Still, it'd be nice to have regular visitors that aren't trying to shoot her...alas, her friends are sort of recluses, so she visits them more often than the other way around...and, well, the teleporting mansion doesn't really help either. Always moves it around for a change in scenery...


Honoo [Fairy of the Flames]
Ability: Ability to manipulate fire

That well and said, Haiiro usually has a partner in crime. Honoo, the fire fairy! She's a fairy, so there's not that much to her, but yet there's still a bit more to her than the typical fairy--that being, fire fairies don't tend to naturally occur anywhere other than, say, hell, and most of those are weird zombie fairies. Honoo's simply a fire fairy--in Gensokyo proper, where there's lots of forests. Being what she is, she likes setting things on fire--large things, like forests. This made her unpopular with, well, pretty much everyone (Mokou's been blamed for a few of her messes, though she may not care as much as a normal person would), but especially other fairies, since burning things down makes things hot, burns away fairy homes, and sort of kills nature. Being generally ostracized, this fairy was forced to think a bit more than usual...and become better at shooting, so as to be able to start a fire before she was shot down.

...So she met Haiiro! Rather, Haiiro shot her down as Honoo was shooting at her, but due to Honoo's stubbornness and above average strength, Haiiro opted to have a chat. Being surprised at the fairy's strength, their faintly similar positions, feeling sympathy for Honoo's plight, and honestly just feeling lonely, Haiiro offered to tag along with the fairy for a while. And, as they traveled together, both grew--thanks to Haiiro's wisdom, Honoo no longer set everything on fire, which quickly patched up fairy relations since they forget easy, and Haiiro showed Honoo how to make more beautiful fire as well as other tricks--while at first it was Haiiro tagging along with Honoo temporarily, it soon became Honoo tagging along with Haiiro nearly all the time. She's become so potent that she's rivals with Cirno now, and she's probably stronger than Cirno...well, at least during the summer.

And on top of that, hanging out with a magician resulted in her being vastly smarter than the average fairy (which isn't a lot but, you know, it's not a high bar)...though, she tends to stop thinking whenever she gets the chance--at least until it involves fire, a subject she knows pretty much everything about. That actually keeps her from starting any wildfires and getting shot and blamed for it...well, with a few exceptions--if someone bigger brings her to start the fire, or if she participates in a fire that's already happening then it's perfectly fine, because she didn't start it--she might get shot, but it's still fine. As such, Honoo tends to linger around known arsonists like Futo, Mokou, etc, and she rarely starts a wildfire herself. Her raising independence makes Haiiro feel more lonely sometimes...but, Honoo always comes home eventually--even if the mansion warps while she's out, she's just got a sense for home. Which is good, because she helps keep the fairies in relative line--without her, the fairies in her mansion would be just that bit more wilder.


Hissori [Artistic Satori Knight]
Ability: Ability to vocalize the thoughts of others

A reclusive Satori that lives underground, completely alone. Before, it was out of irritation of the oni that she could easily hear from her dwelling, a painful shyness, the usual mind-reader distrust for society, and because she didn't know much else--a horrible state to live that deprived her of inspiration for her art, her hearing, and life in general. But, after a nice yet difficult adventure, she learned how to appreciate people...so nowadays, the oni inviting her over for a drinking party is pretty much the only reason she willingly leaves regularly--aside from that, it's just for art supplies, and for selling her art so she can buy food and more art supplies. She may not have appreciated Gensokyo's beauty before, but there's no way she'll appreciate how EXHAUSTING it is on a regular basis--oni drinking parties are quite enough, thank you.

Not being a particular fan of liars makes her appreciate the oni's company even more--but those that lie to her will find themselves speaking about their own deception, and those that trouble her will find themselves on the business end of the brush of the battlefield--namely, a large halberd, and a surprisingly large amount of combat experience. Also, she regularly wears a suit of western armor! Who knows where she got these things--she no longer clearly remembers her past, owing to her long period of seclusion, but she takes good care of them, and knows how to mend any tears. She's very conscious about her body--which for the record is quite nice--so only a few people have seen her without her armor, and she wears it everywhere, even the drinking parties. Woe befall you if you bruise her somehow--somehow, the oni haven't managed it, for despite not being an oni, she lasts too long drinking with the oni, and somehow manages to sidestep any uninvited rowdiness without crashing to the ground in the meantime.

Despite her reclusive nature, she has a good heart, and can't help but to help out people in need. Of course, knowing herself to be a sucker for this kind of thing only encourages her to not be nosy in the first place, because that sort of thing has ended in long, exhausting adventures and she just really doesn't wanna deal with that anymore if she has a real choice in the matter. She just wants to make art, man. Please, don't bang on her door and make her use her mind reading--SEE YOU NEARLY STARTED A CALAMITY STOP THAT. And of course, she doesn't like being nosy in general anymore, after a particular incident with a vampire--which, again, really serves as a nice reason to be a recluse.